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Are repressed memories real?

dreamergrl29
dreamergrl29
I'm a little freaked out at the moment. I woke up the other night smelling a perfume of some sort. And then tonight I started hearing/thinking words in my head in the voice of a babysitter I had once. And there was a certain couch I remember that I always had "accidents" on (wetting I mean). I don't see anything visual, but I am sort of scared at the moment--whether I am making it up (imaging it) or "remebering" something. This would have been about fifteen years ago. Am I going crazy? Sorry this is so random and all over the place. I'm just sort of freaked. I'm really confused.
wolfrkm18
wolfrkm18
I am 24 and I have no memories before the age of 12. I don't remember pictures, houses, cars, or anything. Recently I could think back and have like a 3 second video in my head of my childhood. I don't know if that is just my mind playing tricks with me or if that is a real memory. A repressed memory is a memory that have been pushed away because of a devidtating impact in your childhood like childhood abuse, rape, or molestation. Why you are getting some memories back, I have no idea. I hope this helps.
ArtistMWS
ArtistMWS
You're not going crazy; there are times people experience such things. Now some psychiatrists will dismiss the thought of repressed memories being real but I think there is something to it. Whether something traumatic happened to you all those years ago I obviously can't say but if it did, this could have been blocked to protect your psyche and now that wall is starting to come down slowly and in stages. Could also be that something you've done lately or experienced has set the stage for these possible memories to come back to you.
dreamergrl29
dreamergrl29
Yeah, I just wonder about the credibility of it. Especially with the very real possiblility of "remembering" false memories and all. But do you think that it could be more credible because there was no coercion of any sort by anyone, and it isn't a full blown perfect scene like in a movie type thing that it has a better possibility of not being flase?
wolfrkm18
wolfrkm18
I am verry big into Psychology and the different fields of that, and one of my favorit movies to view on the internet is about Multiple Personality Disorder.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1078314996890815904

It has some to do with repressed memories of sexual abuse.

It has been a interest of mine to study on repressed memories of people that has had no abuse growing up and still having no memories of their childhood. It is hard to do a study on that for multiple reasons.
The movie is an hour long but it is verry interesting.
ArtistMWS
ArtistMWS
I think it could be more credible yes; unfortunately I can't say anything clearer than that without going out on a limb. I'd go with the memories and see where it takes you and then go from there, maybe if more comes back, you might be able to get a better grip of whether it really happened or not.